Saturday, February 4, 2017

Unfolding Jon Gnarr-Effect on the German Election

About a month ago, this Deutsche Welle article stuck me as a piece that I'd want to reference for the rest of this political season.

The piece, published back on 19 Jan 2017....discussed the six things that screw up the German election by devious outside forces (namely Putin).

The six items:

1. Throw your weight (meaning Russia) behind populist parties
2. Revelations about German leaders
3. Spread fake news through social media
4. Play up the migrant crisis and terrorism
5. Target specifically German fears
6. Create the stimulus, wait for the response (this actually means that Russia does nothing but you think that they triggered something to occur)

Are the four principal parties in some fear stage? All four figured Hillary Clinton would win back in November, and they sit in amazement that Trump won. Under every bit of logic they can dig up....with the intellectual gang of TV news hanging with the four parties....you can sense some massive conspiracy is at play.

The ability for the group to grasp that a Jon Gnarr-like event (like in Reykjavik in 2010) occurred and was based on public frustration and loss of trust with the news media?

The chief problem I see now....is that the German news media is now stuck because if they were handed some enormous scandal or terrorist act between now and the end of September....they can't report it to any real extent, in fear of being regarded as an instrument of the Russians.

If you ask me....it's now a perfect landscape for the Jon Gnarr-effect to occur. We just need some comedian to form up a political party and let the German voters do their frustration vote.

No comments:

Advice for Spammers

You are simply wasting your time when you add spammer comments. I delete these daily.

My Other Essay Site

I write mostly on Germany on this essay site, however there is a second site: Letters From Ripley. It's mostly on US stories, politics, and occasional cynical/sarcastic topics.

About the Collection of Essays

NOTE: Schnitzel Republic is now on Facebook: address is www.facebook.com/schnitzelrepublic/

Join there if you want a daily delivery.

This essay log is written by an American who offers wit and sarcasm on Germany, Germans, Germanology, German political figures, German TV, German beer, German food, German humor (or lack of), German habits, German weirdness, German news, German autos, German brilliance, German stupidity, German customs, German Nazis, German history, and German stubbornness.

I was one of those Americans who did over twenty years of military time....married a German....and eventually returned as a retiree.

I'm one of the few who stood under the German umbrella.....paid German taxes for some years.....German social security.....and felt the various pains like Germans.

So, this is my all-purpose commentary essay, designed for Americans mostly (and those Germans who accidentally discover it). I tend to put German culture into the spotlight of sarcasm, wit and humor. I'm simply pointing out the richness and craziness of life in Germany, which even some Germans can't understand.

The amusing thing is that I'm merely repeating the exercise that Mark Twain performed in 1880, when he published "A Tramp Abroad". Various comments were dished out on the Germans....which apparently did not trigger any wars, chaos, climate change, or ill feelings.